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People across DC neighborhoods need to come together and form one. There are organizations that have tried to take on the DC Smart Growth Inc machine, like community associations, historic preservation groups, and the Committee of 100, but then but they become targets of the attack machine.  DC Smart Growth “groups” like Ward 3 Vision and CP Smart Growth have gone around claiming that people who want to keep aspects of their neighborhoods like green space, pedestrian scale, and historic resources are somehow perpetuating “racism.” No one wants to ensure attacks like that.  What’s really rich is that it’s some of the same folks associated with both groups who bring experience in GOP attack politics to the local level and will say anything to advance the special economic interests of their clients.[/quote]

You have it backwards. The Smart Growth groups sprang up in response to the hyper-NIMBYism of the entrenched city and community groups. Ward 3 Vision was specifically born in response to the Tenley Neighborhood Association (which isn't even a real group) and the Friendship Neighborhood Association fighting every development proposal on the upper Wisconsin Avenue Corridor. Actually, I take that back, They were fighting even having a conversation about it, through the Upper Wisconsin Avenue Corridor Study.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/253129/wisconsin-badgers/

And yes, perpetuating "small town feel" on corridors well served by buses and a billion dollar metro all to retain "neighborhood (read White) character, is in fact racist and protective of the racists past of these neighborhoods. You clearly don't want to acknowledge the research and evidence of this posted earlier in this thread, but that is ok, because anyone following this thread or reading along sees it for what it is.[/quote]

It’s really stunning when the owner of the Trump polling firm blogs on behalf of two developer-funded Smart Growth astroturf groups that people who want to preserve green and historic features of their neighborhoods are “racist.”[/quote]

Nice try, but this predates the person you are talking about being involved by about 15 years.[/quote]

This is the type of GOP attack crap that Ward III Vision and CP Smart Growth have been pushing out fir the last couple of years.  Trumpers pretending to be woke to sell their clients’ special interest agenda.[/quote]

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